Fortunate Quotes - Page 4

• I don’t worry about gaining weight. I’m fortunate in that I’ve never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don’t eat enough.

  Alana Stewart

  Worry, People, Stressed

  "Alana Stewart: Actress And Former Model Talks Spirituality And Staying Vibrant At 67". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there’s usually something good at the end.

  Ben Silbermann

  Team, Optimistic, Hard Times

  "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Thinking, Diversity, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Peaceful, Debt, Democratic

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• I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

  Boz Scaggs

  Able, Steps, Feels

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• Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Easy, Chemotherapy, Felt

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• I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

  Shepard Smith

  Enough, Poor

  "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

  Tom Sizemore

  Blessed, Actors, Position

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.

  Aaron Tveit

  Awards, Should Have, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

  Charlize Theron

  Nice, Want, Very Nice

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• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  Rachel True

  Roles, Littles, Enough

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• People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

  Tate Taylor

  Phones, Doors, Interesting

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• I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Believe, Successful, People

  Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?

  Jon Voight

  Knows, Can Do

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• Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

  Jack Wagner

  Dream, Careers, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

  Frank McKinney

  Stay Strong, Blessed, Succeed

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• I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

  Criss Jami

  Contentment, Negative, Shows

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.60, Criss Jami

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• It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.

  Smiley Blanton

  Fear, Long Ago, Capacity

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• If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.

  Timothy Geithner

  Senior, Cutting, Class

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• I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit.

  Naomi Campbell

  Talking, Editors, Different

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.

  Lilly Singh

  Racism, Ambassadors, Want

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Girl, Dream, Upset

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.

  Rene Descartes

  Expectations, Might, Enough

  Rene Descartes (2012). “Discourse On Method, Meditations And Principles: Descartes : Discourse On Method”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Order, Facts, Lows

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